“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thanks so much for all your comments! You have no idea how much I appreciate them! I know I haven't done much with BTR in a long time but I promise I'Thanks so much for all your comments! You have no idea how much I appreciate them! I know I haven't done much with BTR in a long time but I promise I'm not abandoning it, it's something I've been working on, in one capacity or another, for about 5 years now so I'm not giving up on it. There are certain aspects of the story that I'd like to tweak, which requires a rewrite, and I haven't had the time of late, but that should change pretty soon here. Thanks again for reading and commenting!...more
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"A.N.: At the beginning of each chapter I'm going to post links to songs mentioned, I think listening to the actual song instead of just reading the lyrics really adds a whole other dimension to the story.:) So for your listening pleasure I give yo..."
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“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
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Audrey Hepburn

“You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.”
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Neil Gaiman,
The Graveyard Book

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
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Robert Fulghum,
True Love

Description:
In 1966 Millerton, Pennsylvania was little more than a smudge on the midwestern landscape, nearly straddling the state lines between Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. A black-hole of a town built up around a Steel Mill in the early 19th century and since forgotten about. I was seventeen that year, on the verge of what I thought was manhood and all I wanted was to get out. I didn’t care how or where to, anywhere had to be better than here.
A.N.- This is going through a pretty major rewrite so please bare with me. Any comments, positive or otherwise would still be very much appreciated!

Description:
When Elizabeth discovers a wounded man in the forests behind her home, she feels it is her Christian duty to help him—even if he is a royalist. Set after Charles II’s defeat at Worcester during the English Civil War.